No I hadn’t liked Saawariya much after the first viewing experience. Maybe the Diwali euphoria, and the wrong positioning of the film, added to the herd mentality which I experienced, considering everyone else in the theatre disliked it. But a closer view of the film does sort of indicate why the film was worth the second effort in absolute solitude.
For starters, I don’t think that there was monotony in the visual department of the film. It did have its own theme, and thereby all the frames were confined to a basic colour palette, but then there was variation in form and colour, something that is hitherto undone in mainstream commercial Hindi cinema. Saawariya mayn’t necessarily be the greatest film of contemporary Hindi cinema, but it certainly isn’t as bad as it is made out to be. Agreed that there are flaws, in the screenplay and also in the way some of the beautiful songs have been mercilessly murdered, either by way of chopping out the stanzas, or by not being up to the classic Sanjay Leela Bhansali mark.
For a culture industry, which has been plagued by stereotype and ‘inspiration’; Saawariya at least had something different to offer. Of course nothing about it was earth shatteringly different and amazingly original, but nonetheless, there was an effort, which shouldn’t be discarded completely!
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Personally, I liked the movie very much. I am happy that yu actually took an effort to express your second opinion.
Some of the aspects where I think the movie lost the game are:
1. the sets seemed to be very contrived (more than seeming to be a fairyland the sets looked to be from some freudian dream)
2. the protaganist seems to be aimless in life...yu can't relate to him...the protagonist almost always has one expression (that of a pure little loser)
3. when yu start sympathizing with the protagonist, this villain from faraway lands enters the scene and runs away with the girl - giving the film, I think, some half baked feel about it. It leaves sort of a gall for the viewer
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